Hamilton C shell recreates the original UNIX C shell and utilities completely from scratch on Windows, adding numerous enhancements. This user guide is roughly half tutorial and half reference.

• Preface from the Author
• Introduction
• Installation
• Product Support
  
  
• Tutorial

  This section is designed to teach you how to use Hamilton C shell. Each topic uses lots of examples and narrative to explain how things work.

  In Order	Alphabetically
  Getting Started Utilities Tar and MT Utilities I/O Redirection History Mechanism Variables Wildcarding Editing Quoting Expressions Aliases Programming Constructs Scheduling Order of Evaluation Customizing the Shell Summary	Aliases Customizing the Shell Editing Expressions Getting Started History Mechanism I/O Redirection Order of Evaluation Programming Constructs Quoting Scheduling Summary Tar and MT Utilities Utilities Variables Wildcarding

• Samples
• Compatibility
  
  
• Language Reference

  The Language Reference is just that: Reference material, organized mostly as tables to help find answers fast.

  In Order

  Alphabetically

  Basic Statements Function Keys Miscellaneous Statements Statement Relationships Expression Operators File System Tests Special Devices ANSI Escape Sequences Wildcarding Filename Completion Command Line Editing History Recall Command Completion Quoting Variable Substitution Substitution Modifers Pathname Editing Environment Variables Process-Wide Variables Per-Thread Variables (Inherited) Per-Thread Variables (Initialized) Variables, Sorted by Name Built-in Procedures Printf Format Directives Built-in Utilities External Utilities Popular Aliases

  ANSI Escape Sequences Basic Statements Built-in Procedures Built-in Utilities Command Completion Command Line Editing Environment Variables Expression Operators External Utilities File System Tests Filename Completion Function Keys History Recall Miscellaneous Statements Pathname Editing Per-Thread Variables (Initialized) Per-Thread Variables (Inherited) Printf Format Directives Process-Wide Variables Popular Aliases Quoting Special Devices Statement Relationships Substitution Modifers Variable Substitution Variables, Sorted by Name Wildcarding

• Common Problems

  Problems of a General Nature
  Problems Reading or Writing Tar Tapes
  Windows 9x Problems
  

• License Agreement
• Links to Awk, Perl and Vi